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absolute appointment from one school to another and from one district to
another under such regulations as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may prescribe.

INDIAN RULE VII.

Upon the requisition of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, through
the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission shall certify for
reinstatement in a grade or class no higher than that in which he was
formerly employed any person who within one year next preceding the
date of the requisition has through no delinquency or misconduct
been separated from the classified Indian service: _Provided_, That
certification may be made, subject to the other conditions of this rule,
for the reinstatement of any person who served in the military or naval
service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion and was
honorably discharged therefrom, without regard to the length of time
he has been separated from the service.

INDIAN RULE VIII.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall report to the Commission--

(_a_) Every probational and every absolute appointment in the classified
Indian service.

(_b_) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason
therefor, and every refusal to accept an appointment.

(_c_) Every separation from the classified Indian service and the cause
of such separation, whether death, resignation, or dismissal.

(_d_) Every restoration to the classified Indian service.

These rules shall take effect October 1, 1891.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

OCTOBER 9, 1891.

General Rule III, clause 6, is hereby amended by striking out the words
"under such regulations as the Commission may make" and substituting
therefor the following: "under regulations to be approved by the
President;" so that as amended the clause will read as follows:

So far as practicable and useful competitive examinations shall be
established in the classified civil service to test fitness for
promotion under regulations to be approved by the President.

BENJ. HARRISON.

Whereas civil-service rules for the Indian service were approved to take
effect October 1, 1891; and

Whereas it is represented to me by the Civil Service Commission in a
communication of this date that no persons have as yet been examined for
appointment to that service, and that it seems probable that complete
arrangements for putting said rules into full effect will not